Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Back in 2009, I
did a back-to-back Batman special with one of the games being Batman Arkham
Asylum, one of the best games of 2009. The other was Traveler Tale’s Lego
Batman. While both games were great in their own way, Arkham Asylum was the
better of the two. I mean, Traveler Tales has made some great games using the
Lego license, but a lot of the games in the Lego series have been getting
stale. It doesn’t matter which game you play, they all feel the same. It’s like
the Madden and Call of Duty series, no matter what title you give the game in
the series, it’s basically the same. It gets tiring after awhile. So, what
chance does this recent Traveler Tales game have? Lego Batman 2: DC Super
Heroes for the PS3, 360, 3DS, and PS Vita is today’s review. Offering more
super heroes to play as, and having actual voice acting, how does this game
stack up? Does it bring the Lego series new life or does it just fall short a
couple bricks? Read on to find out.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

I have slowly
started to give respect to a Japanese video game developer called Cyber Connect
2. If you don’t know about this company, let me give you a quick rundown to
talk about this fun little company. Founded in 1996, their first project was
Tail Concerto, a quirky platforming action and cult favorite PS1 game that was
hyped, but for some reason failed to get an audience. It is now one of the
hardest PS1 games to find and I really want to get a copy of it. Their second
game was known as Silent Bomber, an action game that I don’t really know much
about. After that, they pretty much worked on the cult-followed .Hack RPG
series that is based on a multi-media franchise known as, well, .Hack. There
was a first series of .Hack games for the PS2 that ran for 5 games with
generally positive reviews and some great music going with those games. They
then made a sequel series called .Hack//GU that ran for 3 games for the PS2
with some generally positive reviews also, but not as much praise as the
original series. However, this company is also known for making a huge slew of
fighting games based off of the overrated anime series, Naruto. While the
earlier games were pretty bad in my opinion, I grew to like the later games,
but mostly Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 for being one of the best-licensed anime
games out there. Simple-to-learn combat, a charming story that cuts the fat out
of filler episodes, and the ability to hear the entire script said with the
Japanese cast, which is pretty nice and I got into the story more with that
option. Oh, it also had some really good graphics. They also made a sequel to
Tail Concerto called Solatorobo, but we are here to talk about the most recent
of the Naruto fighting games from this company. The game we are going to talk
about today is Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations. Besides being
a mouthful to say, it does do some good things like improve combat to be more
fast-paced, more story lines added from the anime series like the story arc
with fan favorite characters, Zabuza and Haku, and combine both the original
Naruto series and the Shippuden series into one. Let’s see if this game is
hiding behind any illusionary ninja tricks.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Some people might
not know whom I am about to talk about. I am going to talk about a very
wonderful and passionate voice actress named Tara Strong. She is probably the
best female voice actor of all time. She has such a charm and passion for what
she does. Plus, she is EVERYWHERE in today’s entertainment media. She has been
voice acting for years and she is just amazing at it. She has been in shows
like Powerpuff Girls, Drawn Together, My Little Pony, Teen Titans, and many
other shows that I could mention, but this opening paragraph would be 500 pages
long. She has even done amazingly well in video games like Psychonaughts, Final
Fantasy 10, Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, No More Heroes 2, Batman Arkham City,
Ratchet and Clank Future Tools of Destruction, Eternal Sonata, and Asura’s
Wrath. Man, if I could, I would marry her because I just love how talented she
is! Well then, why am I talking about her you may ask? It is because she is the
main voice actress and main hero of today’s review, Lollipop Chainsaw for the
PS3 and 360.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Before I start
today’s review, I must fix a few screw-ups that I made during my Dragon Quest 8
review and in my Final Fantasy 13-2 review. I originally said that there was no
revive spell, and you had to constantly go back to the churches to revive your
fallen comrades. Well, that is not true. There are two revive spells, but the
first one you get will only work half the time and it’s almost useless. I mean
it isn’t totally useless, but it was more reliable to just go back to the
church to revive them. Oh, and whoever had the idea of some of the bosses being
able to attack twice in one turn needs to go to jail. In my Final Fantasy 13-2
review some people took note that I commented on Dragon Quest 7 being a poorly
aged and terrible RPG. For the record, I was being a bit harsh since I wanted
to try to be more cynical in my reviews since that is what people want to see.
Dragon Quest 7 isn’t a terrible RPG, plus you really have to have the patience
of a rock to get into it and it is rather tedious. Its only crime is that it
hasn’t aged well. Now that I got that out of the way, let’s conveniently move
to more Dragon Quest. The amazingly popular RPG franchise turned 25, and to
celebrate, Japan is getting the Super Famicom revamps of the first three games
and we also have a new Dragon Quest on the horizon for the Wii and Wii U. I
think as of now, Dragon Quest is the better franchise of RPG’s from Japan than
Final Fantasy since well, 13-2 is just average for me. Anyone who says it’s a
super amazing game is probably lying and or in denial. I know everyone has his
or her own opinion, but the majority of the community knows that the 13th
entry into the used-to-be Fantasy RPG franchise is one of the weakest. Dragon
Quest however, while having some minor bumps on the road to franchising, has
not really had a bad game. The only complaint I could say is that the NES games
and Dragon Quest 7 don’t age well. Let us now shift to today’s review, Dragon
Quest 4: Chapters of the Chosen for the DS.